The League of S.T.E.A.M. or (Supernatural and Troublesome Ectoplasmic Apparition Management)
This past weekend, Maker Faire descended upon the Bay Area (specifically the San Mateo Fairgrounds) for the fifth year in a row. With over 600 exhibitors, performers, and makers, in general, the festival, created by MAKE Magazine to “celebrate arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset,” attracted thousands of attendees of all ages and did not disappoint.
San Francisco's first installment of Music Hackday took place on May 15th & 16th at Pier 38.
San Francisco’s first installment of Music Hackday, a global event that attracts some of the best and brightest minds in the music and technology space, was, as one of the organizer’s put it, “the most productive hack day yet” with 35 new creations or “hacks” materializing over the course of 2 days at Automattic‘s headquarters.
One thing my review is missing is another cool invention that came out of the brainstorming sessions this past weekend – a steel drum (iSteelPan) created for the iPad. The video below demonstrates how it works while this article shows you how to make drumsticks that can be used on any touch device. Whether you like it or not, the iPad is going to play a significant role in how people create new music in the years to come. Click here to read my recap of the event on Spinning Platters.
Michael Tilson Thomas is currently the music director of the San Francisco Symphony.
One of the greatest things about living in San Francisco is the access you have to pretty much anyone and everyone. What exactly do I mean by this? I worked in the music industry for years during and a few years after I graduated from college in Los Angeles and felt that many of the big names were elusive. There’s no way I would have ever mustered up the courage to approach the president of Warner Bros. Records when I was an intern even though his office was right down the hall from where I sat.
However, over the past few years, I’ve had the great fortune of meeting some of the brightest minds that are setting the standards and shaping the future of the music industry including but not limited to Ty Roberts, Ian Rogers, Tim Westergren, Corey Denis, Lee Martin – and SF MusicTech Summit was the forum that made all of these connections possible.
Link to the full set of photos after the jump….
A high voltage martini glass sculpture.
For years and years, I’ve seen photos of Yuri’s Night appear in my Flickr and Facebook feeds from friends but I never got around to attending the show until now. 45 years ago, Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to enter outer space and this annual event, which takes place in over 200 locations worldwide, celebrates that momentous occasion along with the technologies being developed to make space exploration accessible to everyone.
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